The Impossible Dream does come true after all.

I haven't been following figure skating as I used to few years ago. That's because Edmund has more or less stopped skating due to interest diversification, time and studies. I've lost touch with most of the events for like since the last winter Olympics in Torino?

Didn't know who are the upcoming skaters and who are the reigning champs. But with the ongoing Winter Olympics Games now showing on Astro it has brought me back to those time when I used to be quite crazy about figure skating. Well I have to admit that I went a bit over board those days! Okay those were the days!

Coming back to present, I must say that things are getting more and more interesting with this sport. Looking at the young girls doing their spins and jumps so effortlessly and confidently, I would say the impossible are not so impossible anymore. Those days doing a double axel or a combination jump of triple double is considered outstanding. Triple axel and quadruple jumps seem IMPOSSIBLE?

Oh, for those of you who are not figure skating fans, an axel jump means to jump up and make a full rotation on air before you land on the ice on one foot. So a double axel means two rotation on air, triple is three and so on.

Now these girls are doing triple axel, and a combination jump of triple triple! And they make them look so easy. Out of this world! I'm sure very soon they will be doing quads jumps just like the men and that will push the men to doing combination of quads and quads? Wow! I can't wait to see that!

So, dreaming the impossible dream is not a crazy thing to do after all. My hats off to all the winners who have done so well and those who dare to dream the impossible dream....

Women Gold Medalist Kim Yu Na, 19, South Korea.

Silver Medalist Mao Asada, 19, Japan.

Bronze Medalist Joannie Rochette, 24, Canada.

Men Gold Medalist Evan Lysacek, USA.

Evgeni Plushenko, silver medalist, Russia.

Daisuke Takahashi, bronze medalist, Japan.




And...???



Oops! Wrong click...it's Edmund :P

Cheers!